My TCD746320 drive went bad last week after a year or good use, I never did get around to trying to image and expand it, unfortunately. I ordered a used one from ebay fro $35 as spare parts to get a drive to copy from, and also a new 2TB from newegg.

Of course, the blank drive is here already (yea newegg), so if someone could help me find an image now I could have it ready in time for the weekend.

My TCD746320 drive went bad last week after a year or good use, I never did get around to trying to image and expand it, unfortunately. I ordered a used one from ebay fro $35 as spare parts to get a drive to copy from, and also a new 2TB from newegg.

Of course, the blank drive is here already (yea newegg), so if someone could help me find an image now I could have it ready in time for the weekend.

You have time between now and the weekend to run the manufacturer's diagnostic software long test before putting that drive into service.

I have finally got the dreaded S03 error on my TCD658000 after I changed my zip to my new location. I copyed to HD to a new HD and still get the S03 error while trying to load the data for the new zip. I reimaged another HD with the 658000.tbk provided with winmfs, but when it finally reboots back up in the info my Tivo service number is all 0's? and in now playing it says there is a fatal hardware error on the HD and to reboot? is there something im missing that is isn't pulling my tsn? it connects to TiVo, and pulls all the other service info and still says lifetime subscription.

Few weeks ago it went to the welcome screen and constant recycle. I figured it was the hard drive so I pulled the drive, loaded a new drive with the 540 image and it came up fine. Walked through the setup process, all was good.

A few days later, welcome screen again and constant rebooting. Pulled the new drive, tested fine. Put the 540 image back on the drive and booted fine. This time I didn't do the auto expand, walked through the setup and everything was fine.

Again, within 48-72 hours, it is going to the welcome screen again and rebooting. Wondering if it is getting some sort of update from the mothership that is breaking things? How do I prevent it from continuing to break?

Just dropped the 540 image on the same drive again and it is back up but i fear within the next few days the same thing will happen..

I have finally got the dreaded S03 error on my TCD658000 after I changed my zip to my new location. I copyed to HD to a new HD and still get the S03 error while trying to load the data for the new zip. I reimaged another HD with the 658000.tbk provided with winmfs, but when it finally reboots back up in the info my Tivo service number is all 0's? and in now playing it says there is a fatal hardware error on the HD and to reboot? is there something im missing that is isn't pulling my tsn? it connects to TiVo, and pulls all the other service info and still says lifetime subscription.

nm... 4 hrs and a clear and delete solved it.... must have missed that somewhere.

Few weeks ago it went to the welcome screen and constant recycle. I figured it was the hard drive so I pulled the drive, loaded a new drive with the 540 image and it came up fine. Walked through the setup process, all was good.

A few days later, welcome screen again and constant rebooting. Pulled the new drive, tested fine. Put the 540 image back on the drive and booted fine. This time I didn't do the auto expand, walked through the setup and everything was fine.

Again, within 48-72 hours, it is going to the welcome screen again and rebooting. Wondering if it is getting some sort of update from the mothership that is breaking things? How do I prevent it from continuing to break?

Just dropped the 540 image on the same drive again and it is back up but i fear within the next few days the same thing will happen..

any ideas

Power supply? As it warms up after you turn it off to replace the drive perhaps some component is failing and it is not providing stable power.

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Two months ago, I had upgraded my 540 to a 1 TB and last night it failed during a transfer and went into a reboot loop. I replaced it with the original and it got an update to 9.32c.

Update: I RMA'd 2 1TB drives to WD, 1 was the 2 month old drive that was in the TCD540 and the other was a failed 1TB from the TCD652 S3 HD which lasted 2 years. Both was still under warranty with the latter expiring in a few weeks.

I just looked in the WD RMA History and they are going to send me a WD20EZRX and a WD1001FALS as replacements.

Update: I RMA'd 2 1TB drives to WD, 1 was the 2 month old drive that was in the TCD540 and the other was a failed 1TB from the TCD652 S3 HD which lasted 2 years. Both was still under warranty with the latter expiring in a few weeks.

I just looked in the WD RMA History and they are going to send me a WD20EZRX and a WD1001FALS as replacements.

The WD1001FALS is a slightly older Caviar Black (no advanced format to worry about, and I think it can be jumpered down to 1.5) and will work fine in an S2, coupled with a good JMicron or Marvell chipset based adapter, but they get pretty toasty, so you might want to rig up an extra fan in there.

Any chance you can talk them into a WD20EURS instead of the ZRX?

If not, let us know how it works, or doesn't, in that S3, as it's one of the newer models that we haven't had many reports on.

The WD1001FALS is a slightly older Caviar Black (no advanced format to worry about, and I think it can be jumpered down to 1.5) and will work fine in an S2, coupled with a good JMicron or Marvell chipset based adapter, but they get pretty toasty, so you might want to rig up an extra fan in there.

Any chance you can talk them into a WD20EURS instead of the ZRX?

If not, let us know how it works, or doesn't, in that S3, as it's one of the newer models that we haven't had many reports on.

I may just put these into storage and may just get a roamio. In the future I may plop the 2TB into it.

Does anyone have an image for a TCD240080? I just got my dad one off ebay and it is stuck on Welcome...powering up. I would like not to return it or make a claim if I can get it running for him.

What kind of hard drive would you be putting it on?

There's a chance the drive that is in there now has problems.

Since it's one of the S2 and S3 models where "capacitor plague" is a distinct possibility, it could also be a power supply problem causing your difficulties.

You need to hook the drive to a PC and run the diagnostic software from whoever made the drive (if it's a Maxtor, use the Seagate program) and run their long test.

You also need to examine the capacitors on the power supply and see if any have even the slightest hint of a top bulge (the ones underneath the heat sink overhang that are the hardest to get to are the usual suspects), and checking the outputs with a voltmeter, with and without the hard drive connected, is a good idea as well.

And always know where both ends of the power supply cord (that plugs into the wall socket and the back of the TiVo) are at all times.

If you wind up needing an image, my 240040 (or 04A, I forget which) image will work just fine on a drive as big as, or larger than, the Maxtor it came from, and you can expand to use any extra space.

After several times plugging and unplugging the Tivo I finally opened it up. It was dusty so I blew out all the dust and plugged it in. It finally booted. When I received it the box had a gash in the side and the Tivo has a dent and scratch where the gash was in the box. It seems like it was dropped at some point in shipping so I thought the hard drive was cashed. Anyway it seems to be running now and I was able to make a daily call with the wireless adapter. I will pull the drive and copy it to a different 80GB I have. That way I can keep the original on the shelf. I will then set it up at my father's house. Thanks for your help.

After several times plugging and unplugging the Tivo I finally opened it up. It was dusty so I blew out all the dust and plugged it in. It finally booted. When I received it the box had a gash in the side and the Tivo has a dent and scratch where the gash was in the box. It seems like it was dropped at some point in shipping so I thought the hard drive was cashed. Anyway it seems to be running now and I was able to make a daily call with the wireless adapter. I will pull the drive and copy it to a different 80GB I have. That way I can keep the original on the shelf. I will then set it up at my father's house. Thanks for your help.

Check the LBA numbers on both drives--those models tended to use Maxtors that were a trifle larger than WDs, Seagates, and others of that era for the same claimed # of GBs.

Anyone have a software version 9.3.2c image for a series 2 TCD540040? Unitron's 9.3.2b image works just fine for me until it downloads and installs 9.3.2c, where it fails and leaves me with no OS on either the old or new Linux partitions. This isn't a bad hard drive issue either, I get the same result with multiple PATA/SATA drives that pass the long manufacturer diags.

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